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Ernest
(
German
:
Ernst
, 1027 ? 10 June 1075), known as
Ernest the Brave
(
Ernst der Tapfere
), was the
Margrave of Austria
from 1055 to his death in 1075. He was a member of the
House of Babenberg
.
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Biography
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He was born to Margrave
Adalbert of Austria
and his wife
Frozza Orseolo
, daughter of Doge
Otto Orseolo
of
Venice
. He increased the territory of his margraviate by amalgamating the
Bohemian
and
Hungarian
frontier
marches
up to the
Thaya
,
March
and
Leitha
rivers in what is today
Lower Austria
. In his time, the colonisation of the remote
Waldviertel
region was begun by his
ministeriales
, the
Kuenring
knights.
Ernest received his
epithet
due to his fighting against King
Bela I of Hungary
and his son
Geza I
on behalf of their rival
Solomon
according to the chronicler
Lambert of Hersfeld
. In the commencing
Investiture Controversy
, he sided with King
Henry IV of Germany
and
battled against the Saxons
, dying at the
Battle of Langensalza
.
Marriage and children
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In 1050 Ernest married
Adelaide of Eilenburg
(1030 ? 26 January 1071), daughter of the
Wettin
margrave
Dedi I
of
Lusatia
, who gave him three children:
In 1072 he secondly married
Swanhild
, daughter of Count Sighard VII in the Hungarian March.
See also
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References
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- Citations
- ^
Lingelbach 1913, p. 90.
- Bibliography
External links
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Ernest, Margrave of Austria
Born:
1027
Died:
1075
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